LARKIN, DAVID (EDITOR)

The Aviation Art of Frank Wootton

New York: Peacock Press / Bantam Books, 1976. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0330250485. Color and B&W illustrations; This is an oblong paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. "In the 1930s, Wootton was commissioned by Edward Saunders to do art and book illustrations. In this time he wrote several books on art instruction, one of which, How to Draw Aircraft, went on to be a best-seller, In 1939, he volunteered for the Royal Air Force but instead was invited by the commander-in-chief of the Allied Air Forces to accept a special duty commission as official war artist to the R. A. F. And Royal Canadian Air Force. He painted RAF subjects from England to France and Belgium before travelling to Southeast Asia at the end of World War II. It is for this work advancing the field of aviation art, that Wootton is recognised as "probably the finest aviation artist of all time". " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 40116

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: 0330250485 Art Aviation Aviation Art World War II David Larkin Art

LARKIN, DAVID (EDITOR AND AN INTRODUCTION BY)

The Marine Paintings of Chris Mayger

New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1976. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0684145863. Illustrated by Chris Mayger. Color and B&W illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some very beginning bumping and wear. There is a light crease to the bottom front corner of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "Chris Mayger's illustrations are seen all over the world on specially commissioned book covers and in magazines. His paintings depict the adventure of sail, steam, sea battles and discovery. Full of the changing moods of the sea, the action of the ships and men who move with it, this artist's work is always exciting." (from Amazon. ). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 49076

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: 0684145863 Art David Larkin Chris Mayger Ships & Sailing Marine Paintings

LARKIN, DAVID (EDITOR)

Temptation

New York, NY: Peacock Press / Bantam Books, 1975. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. B&W and Color Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book. Thebook is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light creasing to the front book cover. The text pages are clean and bright.. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 45536

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Art David Larkin Illustrators Illustration Temptation Classic Art Art

MENDOZA, GEORGE

Norman Rockwell's Four Seasons

New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1982. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0448166186. Illustrated by Norman Rockwell. Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright with the exception of some beginning foxing to the endpapers. The price clipped dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Norman Rockwell was born in New York City in 1894. His artistic talents became evident at an early age, and when he was sixteen he enrolled in the Art Students League. Thereafter, for over sixty years, he told the story of ordinary people in everyday situations." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 45265

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: 0448166186 Art George Mendoza Norman Rockwell Artists Illustrators Saturday Evening Post Biography Poetry

FOGG ART MUSEUM

Picture Book No. 1 Survey of the Fogg Collections

Harvard, MA: The Fogg Collection, 1951. 1st Edition. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is a small square paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is one small tear to the bottom spine of the book cover. The text pages are generally clean and bright, however, there is some light tidemarking to the top edges of the text pages. "The Fogg Art Museum, which opened to the public in 1895, is Harvard's oldest art museum. Around its Italian Renaissance courtyard, based on a sixteenth-century façade in Montepulciano, Italy, are galleries illustrating the history of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, with particular strengths in Italian early Renaissance, British pre-Raphaelite, and nineteenth-century French art. " (Harvard Fogg Collection). Very Good .

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Book number: 42882

Catalogue: Art Catalogue

Keywords: Art Catalogues Fogg Art Museum Harvard University The Fogg Collections Art Catalogs

POCS, PETER

Posters By Pocs Plaka´Tok

Hungary: Zri´nyi Nyomda Kiado´i Fo?oszta´lya, 1990. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 9630278952. This book is written in both HUNGARIAN AND ENGLISH. The book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears and spots of rubbing and wear. "Péter Pócs was born on 14 September 1950 in Pécs, Hungary. He graduated from the High School of Fine Arts in Pécs in 1971 as a gold- and silversmith designer. He has been working as a graphic designer since 1972 designing mainly cultural, political and some commercial posters. His spiritual masters were Henryk Tomaszewski, Waldemar Swierzy and György Konecsni. He established his one-man studio called Poster Design Studio in 1991. He founded the Hungarian Poster-loneliness Association in 2008. He got his Master Degree in Industrial Design at the University of West-Hungary in 2010." (from Gallery of Friends website). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 48823

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: 9630278952 Art Peter Pocs Posters Anti-Facism Hungarian Art Graphic Design

ROCKWELL, NORMAN (CONSULTING EDITOR)

Norman Rockwell's Christmas Book

New York: Bookthrift, 1977. Reprint. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; The book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has a couple of small spots of ground-in dirt.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 39711

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Art Norman Rockwell Christmas Artists Holidays Art

SASSOON, ROSEMARY

The Practical Guide to Calligraphy

London, England: Thames and Hudson, 1993. Reprint. Hardcover. Color & B&W; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean but does have some beginning bumping to the spine ends. "Learing the skill of calligraphy, or hand lettering, is not only an enjoyable and rewarding activity, but one that has practical value, for it is used increasingly nowadays in many professional areas." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 43212

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: art Rosemary Sassoon Caligraphy Hand lettering Illustrators Illustration art

SPEAIGHT, ROBERT

The Life of Eric Gill

New York: P. J. Kenedy & Sons, 1966. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some generalized rubbing and edge wear. "Arthur Eric Rowton Gill ARA ( 22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was an English sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He is a controversial figure, with his well-known religious views and subject matter generally viewed as being at odds with his sexual behaviour, including his erotic art and sexual abuse of his daughters. Gill was named Royal Designer for Industry, the highest British award for designers, by the Royal Society of Arts. He also became a founder-member of the newly established Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry. ". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 36931

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Art Robert Speaight Lettering Scuptors Typeface Illustrators Art

STEWART, VIRGINIA

45 Contemporary Mexican Artists a 20th Century Renaissance

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1951. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Fair dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has cracked completely along several of the hinges (basically the dust jacket is in separate pieces) , and has a number of edge tears, nicks and chips , but all parts are complete.. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 41025

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Art Viriginia Stewart Signed Edition Mexican Artists Modern Art

TOLLNER, MADELINE R.

Netsuke the Life and Legend of Japan in Miniature

San Francisco, CA: Fearon Publishers, Inc, 1960. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears and nicks, along with some light wrinkling and beginning fading. There is one scratched tear to the rear cover (approx. 1" long). "Netsuke are miniature sculptures that were invented in 17th-century Japan to serve a practical function (the two Japanese characters ne+tsuke mean "root" and "to attach"). In English the word may be italicized or not, with American English tending to favour the former and British English the latter. Traditional Japanese garments—robes called kosode and kimono—had no pockets; however, men who wore them needed a place to store their personal belongings, such as pipes, tobacco, money, seals, or medicines. Their solution was to place such objects in containers (called sagemono) hung by cords from the robes' sashes (obi). The containers may have been pouches or small woven baskets, but the most popular were beautifully crafted boxes (inro) , which were held shut by ojime, which were sliding beads on cords. Whatever the form of the container, the fastener that secured the cord at the top of the sash was a carved, button-like toggle called a netsuke." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 42097

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Art Madeline R. Tollner Netsuke Woodworking Japan Japanese Art

TUCKERMAN, HENRY T.

Artist-Life Or Sketches of American Painters

New York, NY: D. Appleton & Company, 1847. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The brown cloth cover has noticeable spots of foxing and darkening. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some rubbing, bumping and fraying. The text pages are generally clean, but do have some spots of foxing throughout. There is tidemarking to the first 25 or so pages and the rear 25 or so pages, at both top and bottom edges of the text pages. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. The rear endpapers have a previous owner's penciled notations. "Henry Theodore Tuckerman (April 20, 1813 – December 17, 1871) was an American writer, essayist and critic...He was a sympathetic and delicate critic, with a graceful style. He wrote extensively both in prose and verse. He traveled extensively in Italy, which influenced his choice of subjects in his earlier writings. These include The Italian Sketch-book (1835) ; Isabel, or Sicily: A Pilgrimage (1839) ; two volumes of verse, Poems (1851) and A Sheaf of Verse (1864) ; Thoughts on the Poets (1864) ; The Criterion, or the Test of Talk About Familiar Things (1866) ; The Book of the Artists (1867) ; Leaves from the Diary of a Dreamer, etc. He was prominent in the literary life of New York City after 1845." (from Wikipedia). Good .

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Book number: 47337

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Art Henry T. Tuckerman Sketching Artist Biography

VILLASENOR, DAVID (EDITED BY VINSON BROWN)

Tapestries in Sand the Spirit of Indian Sandpainting

Healdsburg, CA: Naturegraph Company, 1963. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. B&W and Color Illustrations; Signed by the author. This is a trade sized paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have some light bumping, rubbing, and one small tear to the bottom front spine joint. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed by the author, with a short inscription by the author. "Born in Guadalajara to Indian and Spanish parents, he spent his early and troubled years in a Boy’s Town-type school in Sonora. When he was 16 he came to the United States, where he lived with the Navajos in Santa Fe, N. M. There he learned the mechanics and spiritual symbolism of sand painting. His work was seen by Ernest Thompson Seton, the naturalist and artist who helped found the Boy Scouts of America. Seton asked if Villasenor would help teach other boys to design in the sand. Seton placed the young Villasenor in his College of Indian Wisdom in Santa Fe, where the young artist taught in exchange for room and board. Drafted into the Army in World War II, Villasenor was used to make medical sculptures and moulages--direct impressions from living tissue. After the war the Natural History Museum of New York gave him a commission for 20 sand paintings, a ritual art traditionally done on the ground with most lasting but a single day. Villasenor learned to mount them permanently and 10 of the 20 were later purchased by the Southwest Museum near downtown Los Angeles. The rest were sold to the Neiman-Marcus store in Dallas. His later work was displayed throughout the West, while two of his 12-foot, 600-pound Aztec calendars are shown permanently at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History and the Plaza de la Raza in Lincoln Park. One of his last works was a 10-foot-high figure of the Indian Chief Sequoyah, which he gave to the Cherokee Nation." (Los Angeles Times) ; Signed by Author. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 39325

Catalogue: Native American Art

Keywords: Native American Art David Villasenor Vinson Brown Signed Edition Sand Art Navaho Art Sandpainting Western Americana Native American art

VILLASENOR, DAVID (PREFACE BY VINSON BROWN)

Tapestries in Sand the Spirit of Indian Sandpainting

Healdsburg, CA: Naturegraph Pub, 1966. Revised Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 091101022X. B&W and Color Illustrations; This is a trade paperback. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some light generalized toning to the white portions of the book covers. The text pages are generally clean and bright, however there is spotting to the bottom edge of the first two text pages. "In the sandpainting of southwestern Native Americans (the most famous of which are the Navajo , the Medicine Man (or Hatalii) paints loosely upon the ground of a hogan, where the ceremony takes place, or on a buckskin or cloth tarpaulin, by letting the coloured sands flow through his fingers with control and skill. There are 600 to 1,000 different traditional designs for sandpaintings known to the Navajo. They do not view the paintings as static objects, but as spiritual, living beings to be treated with great respect. More than 30 different sandpaintings may be associated with one ceremony. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 45515

Catalogue: Native American Art

Keywords: 091101022X Native American Art David Villasenor Vinson Brown Sandpainting Native Americans Indian Myths And Legends Religion Spirituality

ZYGULSKI, ZDZISDLAW

Outline History of Polish Applied Art

Warsaw, Poland: Interpress, 1987. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 8322320574. Color Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 49521

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: 8322320574 Art Zdzisdlaw Zygulski Polish Art Silversmithing Fabric Household Arts